Azerbaijan: efforts to deal with the past should become the priority to ensure reconciliation and lasting peace
Council of Europe news Strasbourg, France 27 April 2021 Diminuer la taille du texte Augmenter la taille du texte Imprimer la page Imprimer en PDF
In a letter to the President of Azerbaijan, made public today, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, urges to take utmost care not to perpetuate and multiply the already deeply-running grievances between the communities affected by the conflict in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.
In this context, the Commissioner expresses concern at the recent inauguration of the ‘Trophy Park’ in Baku, which reportedly displays Armenian military equipment taken as a trophy during the war and shows dehumanising scenes, including wax mannequins depicting dead and dying Armenians soldiers. “I consider such images highly disturb
Statement by the Monitoring Committee on the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Council of Europe news 22 April 2021 Augmenter la taille du texte Imprimer la page Imprimer en PDF The military hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the developments since the trilateral statement of 9-10 November 2020 are of great importance to the Council of Europe and have been closely followed by the Monitoring Committee. In co-ordination with other relevant committees, it has heard from representatives of both countries as well as independent experts, and the co-rapporteurs for Armenia and Azerbaijan have regularly made joint statements on the developments taking place.
The committee is convinced that the national parliaments of both countries can and should play an important role in the urgently-needed confidence-building measu
Azerbaijan: Committee of Ministers deplores absence of progress in execution of European Courtâs judgments
Council of Europe news Strasbourg, France 12 March 2021 Diminuer la taille du texte Augmenter la taille du texte Imprimer la page
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Committee of Ministers of the 47-nation Council of Europe exhorts the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately restore the rights of human rights activists and government critics, as required by the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the Mammadli group of cases against
Azerbaijan. The Committeeâs Interim Resolution ( ) on this group was published following its latest meeting to supervise the execution of the ECHR judgments. The Committee of Ministers recalls that, in respect of each applicant in this group of cases, the European Court found a violation